Sarah Fallon

Sarah Fallon is a senior editor at WIRED, where she co-manages the front of book, edits longer essays, wrangles packages, and commissions features. Before joining WIRED, she was the managing editor of Edutopia magazine, and before that, she was the managing editor of Red Herring. Fallon has a degree in English from Pomona College, and she currently lives in Alameda with her husband and two sons.

Lily Peng

Dr. Lily Peng is one of the many minds working to apply Google Brain to medicine. She is part of a special group of researchers focused solely on medical applications for AI. She says her goal isn’t to replace doctors, but to build a system that will help overworked physicians in the developing world examine many more patients over the course of a day. “We want to increase access to care everywhere,” says Peng, who imagines a future where doctors work alongside AI to examine medical images to detect all sorts of ailments. Prior to Google, Peng cofounded Nano Precision Medical, a startup focused on developing tiny implantable capsules that automatically dispense life-saving medicines to patients.

According to Lily Peng, Product Manager at Google Brain, automated medical screening and diagnosis will detect more patients in need of care which will not displace doctors, but increase the need for medical professionals to treat them.